The EU has agreed to provide information on air passengers flying from Europe to more US government agencies and more quickly, in a revised agreement adopted on Friday (6 October).
Under the new terms, European airlines will continue to transfer 34 types of data about passengers - such as addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers - to Washington but they will apply a new mechanism to do so.
US authorities previously had to actively look for the information they needed from th...
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